The Pure Trewt About the Immaculate Reception.

Some would call me a fundamentalist because I believe, as Coaches Tillery and Bond did, that learning the fundamentals, as the Saxons learned the shield wall, is essential.  Even the few with exceptional talent must learn them in order to advance to his or her own free form.  Legends lead our yewt to greatness when there is trewt in them.  Recently, some yewts and I discussed “The Immaculate Reception.” Almost all of them believed that the reception involved supernatural forces which allowed Bradshaw’s pass to hang in the air.  Some  thought that Frano Harris took the ball over his shoulder without looking back as these forces guided it into his hands. Some backsliders even thought that it took place  in ‘74.    The trewt is that rookie Franco was in top condition, hustled and followed the football.  He was thus able to scooped up the deflected pig skin before it hit the turf and ran it into the end zone.  Here it is from December 23, 1972.  Let us never forget.